From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9174C80050 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:52:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 382F11660192; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:52:11 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2-r929478 (2010-03-31) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2-r929478 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D9F1660190; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:52:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4D87BA76.3080406@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:52:06 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Hart References: <4D876DD3.5070106@mlbassoc.com> <1300722848.30423.3751.camel@rex> <4D877E6B.9000007@mlbassoc.com> <1300730269.30423.3975.camel@rex> <4D879643.7000908@mlbassoc.com> <4D87B974.1040704@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4D87B974.1040704@linux.intel.com> Cc: Poky Subject: Re: Using RPM with Poky X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:52:11 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/21/2011 02:47 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > > > On 03/21/2011 11:17 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: >> On 03/21/2011 11:57 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: >>> On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 10:35 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote: >>>> On 03/21/2011 09:54 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 09:25 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote: >>>>>> I'm trying to do some testing with Poky on an atom-PC. I thought >>>>>> I'd try with a minimal system and then add pieces I need. Sadly, >>>>>> I've run aground doing this. I've built a couple of images with >>>>>> varying results: >>>>>> poky-image-minimal-live - boots on my box >>>>>> poky-image-sato-live - boots, but fails to find X display, then >>>>>> hangs (*) >>>>>> >>>>>> There seem to be no RPM tools on the minimal image. Did I miss >>>>>> something? >>>>>> On my old, ipk based system, I'd build up a minimal image then use >>>>>> opkg >>>>>> to install additional packages. >>>>> >>>>> Minimal images were never meant to ship with the package manager and >>>>> now >>>>> don't. You can obviously change the image definitions easily enough as >>>>> needed. >>>>> >>>>>> How do I do that with the RPM based images? >>>>> >>>>> The same switch turns on/off the package manager data for rpm and opkg. >>>> >>>> I tried adding this to local.conf, but nothing changed when I build >>>> minimal image: >>>> IMAGE_FEATURES += " package-management ssh-server-dropbear " >>> >>> There is also this: >>> >>> # remove not needed ipkg informations >>> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "remove_packaging_data_files ; " >>> >>> in poky-image-minimal.bbclass which has been there for a long time and >>> removes the package manager data files. >> >> I guess I'm just used to my own minimal image which does have all these >> present. >> >>> >>>> BTW, where is this documented? Not in the Poky handbook from what I >>>> can tell. >>>> >>>> Also, is there documentation on how to use zypper, how to set up >>>> repositories, etc? >>> >>> I think others have helped here. Please do send patches for the manual >>> when people go to the trouble of finding information to help though! >> >> I'll see what I can do to help with this. >> >>>>>> I've checked the documentation and there's basically nothing >>>>>> about this, unless I looked in the wrong place. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any ideas or pointers gladly accepted. Thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> (*) I had success with this in the past when I booted with >>>>>> MACHINE=emenlow >>>>>> but that hardware isn't in the primary list. >>>>> >>>>> I'm not sure why this isn't working or what the problem might be... >>>> >>>> It complains it can't find /dev/fb0. See the boot log at >>>> http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/boot_2011-03-21.log >>> >>> Does your board have Intel graphics or PVR/SGX? emenlow has PVR/SGX >>> which might explain this... >> >> I'm not familiar with the details - it's an older Atom with the Poulsbo >> chipset. >> The details (cpuinfo, lspci) are at >> http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/cpu_2011-03-21.info >> The kernel is also not finding my SATA controller - should I expect that >> to work? > > I'd suggest trying the meta-emenlow BSP from the meta-intel layer and see if you make it further as it also uses the Poulsbo chipset. Tom Z. on CC as he has the most experience > with that BSP. I'd be happy to try, but it doesn't build the kernel (already reported) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------